Western Australia is on track to commence its mammoth 12-year train signals upgrade project – allocated $7.4 million in the last budget for the planning stage alone – with a request for tender seeking special advisory services for implementing a new automatic train control (ATC) system...

Coming up to another opportunity to ‘refresh’ its supplier base in March 2018, the future of the Federal Government’s dedicated vehicle for cloud procurement – the Cloud Services Panel (CSP) – is not entirely clear-cut...

The capping of federal IT contracts to less than $100 million or three years duration is likely to have a significant impact on the federal ICT market, with around a third of contracts by value in the past five years exceeding the term limit...

Monitoring ICT project progress on a single Whole-of-Government (WofG) dashboard is becoming a favourable way for governments to improve ICT project management – with New South Wales the latest jurisdiction to install such a platform, and Western Australia and Tasmania closely following suit...

In 2016-17, IBM dropped out of Intermedium’s top five Federal Government ICT suppliers* for the first time in over ten years. In 2017-18, it looks set to return to this group, as it is currently sitting at third spot in the rankings. If Defence-only suppliers are excluded from the analysis, IBM is currently in top place. This rebound is noteworthy, given that the supplier was in ninth place on the leaderboard in 2016-17 – its lowest position on the leader board in the last...

From Kazakhstan’s “single window” state corporation to Portugal’s “Citizen Spots” digital service helpdesks, governments around the world have introduced a variety of innovative solutions to meet changing citizen expectations towards government service delivery...

The set up of the new Department of Home Affairs could see the integration and rationalisation of the back office functions and ICT systems of the agencies involved, and potentially spark fresh thinking regarding the technology used in Australia’s domestic security operations...